Getting bubbles out of fuel pumps
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 - 05:40
in Physics & Chemistry
For more than 250 years, researchers have known that under certain conditions vapour bubbles can form in fluids moving swiftly over a surface. These bubbles soon collapse with such great force that they can poke holes in steel and damage objects such as ship propellers, turbine blades, nozzles and pump impellers...